Breakwaters evolves the way you interact with water. Swim, sail, and fly to find new islands with unique resources to build, craft, and survive. Play solo, or join friends online to explore, build a home to defend, defeat massive Titans, and bring calm to the waves.

Solo or with friends, players explore a procedural world with dangerous ocean depths and nearby islands while battling or avoiding terrifying Titans. Artifacts from a dead civilization beneath the waves, these massive monsters constantly roam the world, causing destruction. Can you earn the right to become a Breakwater and stop the Titans?

Surrounded by a sea of mysteries and possibilities, one of the first things players will notice in Breakwaters is that water behaves differently here. Powerful crystals are used to displace water and reveal resources to harvest and quests to complete. Different strategies, such as building walls to contain the ocean or block waves, are key to rebuilding and helping the world recover from the constant chaos inflicted by Titans.

Breakwaters is designed for three different types of players: Homesteaders, Explorers, and Adventurers. This means players enjoy many different play styles, such as building, farming, combat/action, adventure and more. There’s something for everyone—casual players who enjoy life-sims can chill on the beach to harvest resources, while players who crave action and adventure can battle massive Titans that plague an otherwise peaceful world.

Indie studio Soaring Pixels Games announced that Breakwaters will be available on Steam Early Access on November 11, 2021.

“We’ve had a lot of fun over the last 5 months during our closed beta testing. Seeing how fans interact with and experience the game has been a blast, and it has been incredibly valuable during development,” said Phillip Heckinger, Director at Soaring Pixels. “Thanks to this feedback from our fans and our amazing community, we’re now ready to commit to an Early Access delivery date and we can’t wait to start our journey to a full launch.”

Originally announced via Kickstarter earlier this year, Breakwaters was funded in just 3.5 hours. Since hitting their initial funding goal, along with quite a few stretch goals, the team at Soaring Pixels has been busy preparing and perfecting some pretty cool features for the upcoming Early Access launch, including:

• Boats. To build a boat, you must have blueprints and access to a floating dock. Different blueprints can be found or purchased in the Breakwaters world, with each boat having different functions and features, such as the number of contraption slots they have, where those slots are located, and how much contraption weight a boat can handle.The type of vessel you build plays a key part in your play style, and you’ll need to be strategic when considering the best vehicle.
• Boat Contraptions. You must think carefully about what contraptions you’ll equip on your boat and how you’ll use them. Without a crane on board, you could miss out on grabbing sunken treasure from the ocean floor. Or, without a cannon on board, you could lose that sunken treasure and more if you can’t defend yourself while at sea. Other contraptions include fog lights, armor, ballista, sails, motors, and more!
• Online Co-Op. No man is an island, not even in Breakwaters. While the single-player experience is compelling, exploring the 350+ square kilometer open world is more fun with friends. Work together to build a home base, team up to tackle a Titan or just walk the shoreline and take in the view
• Pumps and Pipes. This feature set allows you to create plumbing systems that can drain bodies of water to reveal resources and pump water into structures for storage.  Use the water pressure to power contraptions and sensors to automate tasks across your homestead. By using pumps and pipes strategically, you can carve the world around you into the environment you need to succeed in your quest to become a Breakwater, whether that means turning a valley into a lake or creating a devastating flood in the lowlands.
• Crystals. Using pumps and pipes isn’t the only way to move water to your advantage. Powerful crystals hidden in the world around you can help you create water where none existed, repel the ocean to harvest resources, attract water to a contained area and more.
• Floating Docks. Not satisfied with living in a cozy, beachfront hut with an unbeatable view of the ocean? Use the floating dock feature to build your dream overwater bungalow! 
• Flexible Farming. A wide variety of farming options is just one way to create an island world that is both functional and beautiful. Whether you need to build a vegetable farm on a steep hillside, or you want to spruce up your place with some potted plants, the ability is there.

Key Features:

• Online co-op and single player.
• The largest ocean simulation in a game ever that creates a unique interactive open-world experience.
• Defeat Titans as large as an island and fight Golems as big as a house.
• Gather crystals and refine them into items that displace and deform the ocean revealing rich resources below.
• Build structures that interact with the world-scale ocean simulation; turn a valley into a lake or open the doors and flood the lowlands.
• Craft items to suit your play style, whether it be farmer, explorer, or adventurer.
• Build and customize your boat to handle Titans, rough weather, and local enemies.
• A massive world filled with procedural islands and unique biomes.
• Dynamic time of day and weather.

Breakwaters is coming to PC (Steam) in 2022, followed by other PC portals and console platforms at a later date.